Two small townhouses at similar rates, both with stairs and no spa. Artist Residence London puts ten rooms above its own restaurant and cellar bar on a quiet Pimlico street; Hazlitt's is a 1718 Soho house with sloping floors and no restaurant, for theatre nights and dinners out.
The insider oneTen rooms above a neighbourhood restaurant and an old pub cellar, in a Pimlico townhouse that is still independent.
££From about £350 a night
Choose Artist Residence London if
The catch
No lift, and the bedrooms are spread over three floors above the ground floor.
The classicA 1718 Soho townhouse hotel that refuses to be updated: four-posters, sloping floors, breakfast at your door and no restaurant.
££From about £332 a night
Choose Hazlitt's if
The catch
Steep stairs and floors that slant, and the hotel publishes nothing about lifts, so plan for stairs.
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The verdict
Two small townhouses at similar rates, both with stairs and no spa. Artist Residence London puts ten rooms above its own restaurant and cellar bar on a quiet Pimlico street; Hazlitt's is a 1718 Soho house with sloping floors and no restaurant, for theatre nights and dinners out.
Questions people ask
Two small townhouses at similar rates, both with stairs and no spa. Artist Residence London puts ten rooms above its own restaurant and cellar bar on a quiet Pimlico street; Hazlitt's is a 1718 Soho house with sloping floors and no restaurant, for theatre nights and dinners out.
Ten rooms, a bar in the old pub cellar and a quiet Pimlico street outside, at London townhouse money. It works if the house itself is what you came for. A ten-room house that spends everything on character and the ground floor and nothing on facilities. The rate is mid-range for central London and high for what you physically get.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Hazlitt's suits people who want the 18th century left roughly as it was found, stairs and all. Take a Superior Double, plan every dinner outside the front door, and let Soho do the rest. A small, old, deliberately unmodernised house in the middle of Soho, where character is the entire proposition. Everything a modern hotel would add, a restaurant, a spa, lifts in the staircases, has been left out or left unmentioned.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.